Dave, I am just trying to understand the rules.

Do you think it was wrong for news outlets to refer to the virus as the 'Wuhan Virus' and 'China Virus' in January?

It is a simple question that deserves a simple answer given your strong views on the subject.

Dave, Insider Trader knows it is racist. He will follow you about forever being abusive to you. Just block him as I did long ago and I promise you won't regret it.

How Ebola got its name

The Ebola virus that caused the devastating outbreak in West Africa between 2014 and 2016 didn't even have a name just 38 years ago, when it first surfaced and caused a mysterious illness among villagers in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The international team of scientists who were tasked with investigating that 1976 Ebola outbreak  were shocked at the sight of the virus and the disease it caused, Dr. Peter Piot, co-discoverer of the virus, recalls in his memoir "No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses." (W. W. Norton & Company, 2012)

When the scientists, inside their Belgian laboratory, looked under the microscope at blood samples sent from Africa, the virus looked like a worm or a long string, unlike almost any viruses known at the time. And once the team got on the ground in Zaire, they saw how rapidly the virus spread and how quickly it killed its victims. They knew they had to figure out how this mysterious new virus was being transmitted, what it did inside the body, and how it could be stopped.

But they also had to figure out a name for the new virus.

The story of how Ebola got its name is short and somewhat random, according to Piot's account. Late one night, the group of scientists discussed over Kentucky bourbon what the virus they were hunting should be named.

Related: 11 Deadly Diseases That Hopped Across Species

The virus had surfaced in a village called Yambuku, so it could be named after the village, argued one team member, Dr. Pierre Sureau, of the Institut Pasteur in France, Piot recalled.

But naming the virus Yambuku ran the risk of stigmatizing the village, said another scientist, Dr. Joel Breman, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This had happened before, for example, in the case of Lassa virus, which emerged in the town of Lassa in Nigeria in 1969.

It was Karl Johnson, another researcher from the CDC, and the leader of the research team, who suggested naming the virus after a river, to tone down the emphasis on a particular place.

One obvious option would have been the Congo River, which is the deepest river in the world and flows through the country and its rainforest. But there was a problem— another virus with a similar name already existed. That virus was the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus.

So the scientists looked at a small map, pinned up on the wall, for any other rivers near Yambuku. On the map, it appeared that the closest river to Yambuku was called Ebola, meaning "Black River," in the local language Lingala.

"It seemed suitably ominous," Piot wrote.

However, the map was inaccurate, and the Ebola river turned out not to be the closest river to Yambuku, Piot said. 

"But in our entirely fatigued state, that's what we ended up calling the virus: Ebola."

And so Ebola joined the list of viruses named after rivers. Other members include the mosquito-borne Ross river virus, which causes a debilitating infection and is named after a river in northern Queensland in Australia, and the Machupo virus, which causes Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, or "black typhus," and is named after a Bolivian river.

Many other viruses, too, have been named after a feature of their place of origin, including West Nile virus discovered in 1937, coxsackievirus discovered in 1948 (Coxsackie is a town in New York), Marburg virus discovered in 1967 (Marburg is a town in Germany), and Hendra virus identified 1994 (Hendra is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia).

The tradition continues today. In 2013, after months of being called by a number of names, a newly discovered coronavirus finally got an official name — Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, or MERS-CoV. And another coronavirus, first discovered at the end of 2019 and currently spreading across the globe, is now called SARS-CoV-2.

Another day of the democracy crusaders pretending to care about the fairness of elections while the party and politician they support suppress the votes of hundreds of thousands if not millions and want to do it to many more

Oh my, what fun to wake up to, as IT has dave on the ropes, squealing for mercy! He couldn`t answer, he ran away!!! The comrades jump in with the usual mob-handed bullying attempts at shutting down truth, but it`s all too late, dave`s been brutally exposed and squashed, nothing left but futile last breath attempts at deny and deflect!!!
Fully deserving of an even more hearty CHORTLE than usual!

What do you call ebola?

He refuses to answer on any other disease.

It looks like the only issue Dave has with calling the China Virus the China Virus is because Trump used the term after most of the media used the same term.

If Trump used the term Ebola I image Dave would say that Ebola was racist.

Over to you, Dave.

I've asked both that question more than once, you won't answer.

here`s dave;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8IkbCeZ9to

Dave,

If there was an outbreak of Ebola in USA (for some reason) and Trump did a press conference and said..

'We now have over 1000 cases of people dying of Ebola'

would you say he was using a racist trope?

Dave,

If there was an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in USA (for some reason) and Trump did a press conference and said..

'We now have over 1000 cases of people dying of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus'

would you say he was using a racist trope?

The Trump virus would be apt considering they’ve dealt with it in China now.

On current figures, the total deaths from the Trump virus will be over 300K in the USA.

Can’t be bothered to read through your drivel, Tim.

A time consuming and pointless exercise. I can explain things to you, but I can’t understand them for you.

Chortle. How cute.

Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden, Clement Attlee, Henry Cooper, Lady Diana, vi har slått dem alle sammen, vi har slått dem alle sammen! (we have beaten them all, we have beaten them all!). dave, can you hear me? dave ... your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqZTP8-8wIs

politicspunter 16 Aug 20 15:04 
`... timbuctooth was wiped out in the Democratic nominee market...`

That`s an outright lie.

I personally don't like her (nor will many more left people but either they were already voting Biden despite his many flaws or were never voting for him regardless of realistic VP choices) but that isnt particularly relevant and its reading far too much into the primary performance when basically nothing should be read into it.

She is deeply unpopular with the racists and Republicans who arent going to vote blue. She was seen as a fairly popular VP choice in polling of Dem voters. There just isn't enough to distinguish her right now from Biden for her to be seen as causing lost voters. Its a fairly moderate ticket despite all the screaming and dramatics from MAGA goons